2017 Application of the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) 12 13 March 2018 Stavanger, Norway
Energy knowledge for the world Introduction When resource classification was first introduced in London in the early 20th century, it was a tool for the scientifically minded geologist. The emphasis was on distinguishing between observed quantities, interpolated quantities and extrapolated quantities - a discipline enforced on field geologists to this date. The result was naturally a classification of rocks in the ground. They were called proved, probable and possible quantities. We find the same basic concept in the classifications developed in the western and in the eastern hemispheres. At the time, there was no need to have a common global classification. Those were the days when there was no correlation between the Boston and Chicago stock exchanges. A classification developed locally would do, and a large number of slightly different ones emerged. The world has evolved. The Boston and Chicago stock exchanges no longer exist. The New York Stock Exchange has taken over and reacts to movements on the Asian stock exchanges within seconds. At the time of the energy crisis in the 1970 s classifications changed direction by accepting the criteria of economic recoverability. This was promoted by the USGS in the 1950s to become known as the McKelvey Box, named after its director. In the 1990 s another fundamental change occurred when the classifications were aligned with the value chains commonly used, particularly in the European petroleum industry. Eventually this was promoted by both the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the World Petroleum Congress (now the World Petroleum Council) as their petroleum resource classification in 2000. This was elaborated to become the Petroleum Resource Management System (PRMS) as we know it today. In minerals, the value chain was expanded by explicitly adding consideration of economic and social conditions to the industrial value chain in an effort that started in Germany and Austria in classifying coal. The United Nations promoted this as its UN Framework Classification (UNFC). The first version appeared in 1997, the second, expanded to petroleum and minerals in 2004 and revised in 2009. In the same period, the mineral industry developed its reporting codes to include considerations of recoverability, economic, social and industrial readiness aimed particularly for stock exchange reporting. We know them as classifications made on the basis of the CRIRSCO template. In this course, we focus on the application of the UNFC. It has become a classification of what we get as opposed to a classification of what we found where it all started in the early 1900. As such, it is no longer a classification of geological resources, but rather of the projects producing sales and non-sales products from them and it need not be only from geological resources. It works as well for other products produced by investments. We are therefore witnessing a further development of the UNFC to renewable energy resources, underground storage projects and anthropogenic resources. Water may follow. The UNFC links classification closely with resource management. Resource management is the object of the course offered by PETRAD during the two preceding weeks. Candidates are encouraged to examine both and join both to the extent that they are interested in going deeper into this essential subject area.
Objective Application of the UNFC is still a young professional activity and the call for training has been rising quickly. The objectives of this course are: 1. Provide an understanding of the basic structure of the UNFC 2. To familiarise participants with the four principal areas of application, namely: a. Policy formulation b. Government resource management c. Industry business process management d. Capital allocation 3. Illustrate the above with case studies Target Audience The target group for this course are geoscientist, engineers, economists, lawyers, analysts and communications/investor relation experts involved in: Policy development Government resource management Industry business process management Capital allocation and financial reporting Pedagogical Approach PETRAD believes that the best pedagogical learning approach is a combination of presentations, discussions, problem-based learning and team based learning. In this brief course, the sessions will consist of two lectures, each of 20 minutes followed by 20 minutes of discussion. Participants are encouraged to familiarising themselves with the UNFC before arriving at the course, and to submit topics that they are particularly interested in including in the discussion sections to the organisers on or before the 16ht of February. UNFC references are found here: http://www.unece.org/energy/se/reserves.html https://www.unece.org/index.php?id=45992
Program Schedule Day 1 11:30 Registration and lunch 13:00 Welcome and introduction. UNFC Basics Classification background UNFC explained 14:00 14:15 Coffee break UNFC basics - Continued Relationship between UNFC and classifications bridged to it Quality assurance, aggregation, accounting and disclosure 15:15-15:30 Coffee Break UNFC Applied UNFC in policy formulation UNFC in Government resources management 18:30 Dinner
Day 2 8:45 9:00 Welcome UNFC Applied - continued UNFC in corporate business process management UNFC in capital allocation 10:00 10:15 Coffee break Designing an efficient industrial ecosystem revisited Legal and contractual factors Licensing and infrastructure development 11:00-11:15 Coffee break 11:15 12:30 Designing an efficient industrial ecosystem - Continued Aggregation, risk assessment and portfolio optimization Fiscal factors 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Review of illustrative case studies 15:30 Summary 16:00 End of the course
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Venue PETRAD, Professor Hanssens vei 10, Stavanger Application details Fee NOK 6000,- per person including two lunches, coffee, tea, dinner and bus transport to and from the hotel. Application at training@petrad.no Contact details PETRAD: Mr. Sigurd Heiberg Tel: +47 975 79 731 Email: sigurd.heiberg@petrad.no Ms. Berit Tvedt Tel: +47 908 32 826 Email: berit.tvedt@petrad.no Dr. Kim Chi Tran-Gulbrandsen Tel: +47 473 06 828 Email: kct@petrad.no
Lecturers Sigurd Heiberg Project Director Sigurd holds a BSc from the University of California and a SM degree in Geotechnology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received formal management training at IMD, Switzerland on international management and High Performance Boards. Sigurd has spent most of his working life in Government and industry working on petroleum resources management and strategy, both as Deputy director of resource management responsible for development and production at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, as Petroleum exploration advisor to the Minister of Water, Energy and Minerals of Tanzania and as a member of Statoil s Corporate strategy team. He chaired the Oil and gas reserves committee of the Society of Petroleum Engineers when the SPE Resource classification that later became the SPE-PRMS was developed and the UNECE Expert group on resource classification when the UNFC-2009 classification was developed. He has also chaired the Bureau of the UNECE Intergovernmental Committee on Sustainable Energy. Sigurd has engaged in education by helping to form and build PETRAD. He has been a lecturer at the MIT Sloan Executive Education and at the University of Stavanger. He has been guest editor with MIT Professor Donald Roy Lessard of Innovation in oil and gas through partnering, Elsevier s Volume 3 of Energy Strategy Reviews. He joined PETRAD as a Project Director in 2017. Per Blystad Per holds a Cand. Real (PhD) in geology from University of Bergen. After a few years working in a cross-disciplinary project connected to a huge hydro-electric development project in the south-western mountain area in Norway, the Ulla-Førre Investigations, he joined the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) for more than 30 years working on petroleum resource management and project management. His working experience includes exploration and licensing, annual reporting to government from companies in relation to the revised annual national budget, resource assessments and methodology development of yet-to-find potential of petroleum on the Norwegian continental shelf. For six years Per coordinated the international project in NPD aiming at assisting countries in Asia and Africa to develop national petroleum resource management systems and capacities. After this Per was seconded as project coordinator in CCOP for two years in a project on Resource Evaluation and Planning. Per has been engaged in developing NPD s petroleum resource classification system. In 2001 he joined the UNECE Expert group on resource classification (EGRC). He was member of the Bureau and chaired the Petroleum group until 2004. He later chaired the EGRC Mapping Task Force prior to and necessary for developing the UNFC-2009 classification. He is member of the EGRC.
Janne Hokka Janne holds MSc in economic geology from University of Helsinki. He has over 8 years of experience in different exploration and mining projects. He has also gained field experience as an exploration geologist in Australia in copper and uranium exploration and mining projects. He is accomplished in field exploration management, logging, soil sampling, QA/QC planning and monitoring, bedrock mapping, lithogeochemistry, database construction, 3D modelling and resources estimations. Currently he is working in Geological Survey of Finland specialising in the evaluation of Mineral Resources from early-stage exploration through to production. Janne focuses on Mineral Resource estimation and preparation of technical reports in accordance with international reporting guidelines, resource auditing and training programs predominantly for mafic-ultramafic related ore systems (Ni-Cu, Fe-Ti-V), but he also has experience in precious metals and uranium. He has been part of the Nordic Group preparing the Guidance for the Application of the UNFC-2009 for Mineral Resources in Finland, Norway and Sweden and he is the UNFC contact person in Geological Survey of Finland.
For further information please contact: PETRAD Professor Olav Hanssens vei 10 P.O. Box 598, NO-4003 Stavanger, Norway Tel: 47-51 87 66 20, Fax: 47-51 87 11 47 E-mail: petrad@petrad.no Web: www.petrad.no